all five list Flashcards

(98 cards)

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Voracious

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desiring or consuming great quantities

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Indiscriminate

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choosing at random without careful selection

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Eminent

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of high reputation, outstanding

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Steeped

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soaked, drenched, saturated

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Replete

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completely filled or supplied with

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Abound

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to exist in great number

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Prognosticate

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to predict or for tell a future event

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Automaton

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a robot or mechanical person

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Matron

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older married woman

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Paradox

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a statement that first may seem absurd but may in fact be true

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Realm

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special field of someone or something, kingdom

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Annals

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historical records

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Compound

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to increase or add to

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Tinge

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a trace, smattering or slight degree

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Badger

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to pester, nag, annoy, persistently

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Implore

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to plead urgently for aid or mercy

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Drudgery

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unpleasant, dull, or hard work

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Interminable

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unending

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Perceive

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to understand, know, become aware of

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Laconic

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expressing much in a few words

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Throng

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crowd

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Intrepid

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brave

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Accost

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to approach and speak to

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Reticent

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silent

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Furtive
secret, stealthy
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Felon
person guilty for a major crime
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Plethora
excess
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Hapless
unfortunate
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Irate
angry or incensed
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Pretext
an excuce
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Fabricate
to lie, to construct
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Adroit
skillful
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Gesticulate
move arms energetically
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Vigilant
watchful
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Avid
eager
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Cajole
war
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Rudimentary
elementary
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Enhance
intensify, heighten
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Nuance
slight variation in tone, meaning etc
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Loathe
to hate
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Reprimand
to show sharp disapproval
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Lackluster
dull
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Caustic
sarcastic, bitting
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Wrest
take by force
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Infamous
having a bad reputation
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Jostle
to shove hard
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Dupe
a person easily tricked
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Incipient
just begging to exist
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Inadvertent
heedless, not attentive
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Ominous
threatening
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Tremulous
quivering
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Repudiate
to reject, decline
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Cessation
a stopping
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Bristle
stiffen with fear or anger
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Euphemism
a less offensive term
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Mundane
worldly
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Incongruous
inappropriate
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Condolence
pity
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Stipulate
to specify a condition
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Rampant
going unchecked, widespread
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Inane
foolish
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Ethics
code of principals
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Concur
agree
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Clandestine
secret, undercover
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Flagrant
outrages, glaringly bad
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Admonish
to warn, to reprove
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Duress
compulsion, force
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Culprit
the guilty person
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Inexorable
inflexible, unrelenting
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Egregious
remarkably bad
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Distraught
mentally confused, crazed
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Duplicity
cunning, trickery
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Acrimonious
bitter
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Paucity
scarcity
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Elicit
to draw forth
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Pernicious
harmful, causing injury
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Tolerate
to put up with, to bear
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Construe
to make a deduction, to infer
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Impunity
freedom from punishment
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Alacrity
do something quickly or lively action
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Disdain
hate or contempt
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Belligerent
warlike or a hostile person
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Intimidate
to be frighten by someone
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Feint
false attack
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Pugnacious
enjoys fighting or an aggressive person
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Brash
disrespectful
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Scoff
sneer out or make fun of
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Belittle
make less important
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Tangible
something you can touch or having an actual form or proof
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Laceration
jagged wound or series cut
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Castigate
to correctly punish someone
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Sordid
dirty, terrible, horrible
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Octogenarian
person in their eighties
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Solace
easing of grief
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Aspirant
candidate for high position
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Dregs
most worthless part
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Frenzy
wild fit or loose control
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Scurrilous
terrible, dirty, coarse